I am in awe of Abraham. How did he do it? How did he keep believing when he was almost a hundred years old, and still, he had no child? How do you keep believing when you can’t see any evidence that something will ever happen? Can you see him… waiting… hoping… believing? The years…

O God, my heart is quiet and confident. No wonder I can sing your praises! Psalm 57:7 “Control seems preferable to what we typically think of as its opposite—chaos. But I want to suggest that the opposite of control is not chaos. It is trust, and trust is far preferable to control. We want to control because we…